Jan 22, 2005, 10:26
out of curiousity, i downloaded and installed the new picassa 2 software.
have been very pleasantly surprised... it runs very fast, previews raw files, and has a set of pretty good photo-editing tools, far beyond the usual red-eye correction, auto-colour etc...
you can actually tweak shadows/highlights and colour correct with this... and it even saves the steps, so you can undo them.
i doubt it'll take the place of photoshop for more important pictures, but it's pretty good for viewing, and much much faster and less memory intensive for things like sorting through a big bunch of pictures, doing basic retouch, then sending to friends or posting on the web.
go give it a try!
have been very pleasantly surprised... it runs very fast, previews raw files, and has a set of pretty good photo-editing tools, far beyond the usual red-eye correction, auto-colour etc...
you can actually tweak shadows/highlights and colour correct with this... and it even saves the steps, so you can undo them.
i doubt it'll take the place of photoshop for more important pictures, but it's pretty good for viewing, and much much faster and less memory intensive for things like sorting through a big bunch of pictures, doing basic retouch, then sending to friends or posting on the web.
go give it a try!